Biography

University of Maryland University College - Business

Full Professor at Jack Welch Management Institute
Higher Education
Stephen
Griffith Ed.D.
Troy, Ohio
An experienced, marketing and manufacturing-oriented executive with an outstanding track record for consistently attaining and surpassing profit goals within both large, market leading industrial companies as well as dynamic small and mid-cap companies desiring to improve their performance by embracing the disciplines of market leaders.

Thoroughly experienced in diagnosing and evaluating organizational competencies and the current competitive and financial strengths and weaknesses of organizations, able to draw on appropriate portions of the rigorous planning and management practices of such leading firms such as Caterpillar and Emerson Electric and to apply these processes to the real world of smaller companies to achieve impressive results. Familiar with best of class management practices in such areas as strategic planning, marketing planning, product development and positioning, manufacturing process improvement and financial management.

Accomplished in developing and, where appropriate, recruiting results oriented senior managers who can embrace and successfully implement these disciplines. Possesses solid experience in finding, evaluating, negotiating the purchase of as well as integrating product lines and acquisition candidates.

Specialties: Organizational Change
Value Stream Assessment
Development and execution of business plans
Communication of plans, results and strategies to investors, bankers and other stakeholders
Maximization of enterprise value in preparation for sale of the firm
Assessment of acquisition candidates
Strategic and operational “due diligence”
Development and implementation of growth strategies and programs
Implementation of upgraded managerial and operational processes